Golf club cleaning device

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a portable, sealed device intended to clean the end part of a golf club, i.e. the metal part which is designed to hit the ball and which, as a result, is exposed to dirt upon hitting the ground and collecting dust, mud and similar substances that adhere thereto. The metal part must be cleaned each time a ball is struck in order to prevent the ball from deviating from the direction intended by the user as can happen when accumulated dirt strikes the ball instead of the metal part.

More precisely, the invention refers to a device of new conception made up of a container element of cylindrical configuration with a fitted outer entrance on its upper side through which the golf club and its metal part is placed to be cleaned by a brush containing a cleaning solution in the interior of the said device.

The purpose of this portable and sealed device is to have the end part of the golf club cleaned, in other words, the metal part is designed to hit the ball and which as result of its specific function is exposed to dirt upon hitting the ground and collecting dust, mud and similar substances that adhere thereto and that must be cleaned each time the ball is struck in order to prevent the ball deviating from the direction intended by the user, as a consequence of the said ball striking dirt first instead of the mentioned metal part.

Records of the said device are not known, therefore, for the time being, in most of the golf fields, users clean the end part of the golf club by means of a water jet and a conventional brush; there has not been any other kind of tool designed for that purpose.

The proposed device consists of a container element, preferably of a cylindrical configuration, although other kinds of configurations are possible, the said element includes two basis in both end parts, the upper and the lower basis, the first one has an opening and the second one closes the said container element.

The upper basis has an opened area or outer entrance whose perimeter is appreciably rectangular through which the end part of golf club has an entrance, in other words its metal part, until it reaches a cylindrical block with an outer entrance surrounded by a planar bristles distribution like brushes leading to a parallel flat section on the upper basis with an opened area or outer entrance that leads to a hollow or tank full of a cleaning liquid solution.

The parallel flat section is a disk whose opened area defines an outer entrance through which the metal part of the golf club is inserted untill it hits another disk that can slide upwards and downwards and vice versa of the container element, and that is full of the cleaning solution.

The cleaning solution can move upwards from the lower side of the container element, depending on the free space left when the mobile disk moves downwards, between this disk and the interior surface of the said container element, when the end part of the golf club is pushed by the mentioned disk, so that the cleaning solution moves upwards through the empty area, staying on top of the said disk and being able to move, in a guided way, the said disk upwards and downwards of the container element whose lower basis, besides shutting the chamber from the interior side, has a small interruption valve to empty the tank, clean it and fill it up again with cleaning solution.

All the integral parts of the device are easily removable and its design allows for an easy assembly and cleaning of these parts, since the manufacture of the device is of an extreme simplicity and its cost of manufacture is low.

Other details and characteristics will be highlighted throughout the following description in which attached drawings to this report are mentioned for illustrative purpose, and not as limitation to a practical execution of the invention.

The following list shows in detail the main elements of the invention that are graphed on the end forms; (10) device, (11) upper basis, (12) lower basis, (13) container element, (14) outer entrance, (15) flat section, (16) brushes, (17) spring, (18) opening, (19) outer entrance, (20) support, (21-22) skirt, (23) brush mounting block, (24-25) upper and lower parts of the container element (13), (26) joint, (27) interior surface of (13), (28) mobile disk guiders, (29) scrapers (elastic joints) of guiders (20), (30) interruption valve, (31) joint, (32) joint, (33) scraper mounting to (20), (34) belt support mounting and (35) belt support, (36) o-ring joint of (15), (37) set of brush mounting (16) to the block (23), (38) Set of block mounting (23) to fixed disk (15), (39) Set of basis mounting (11) and (12) to container (13), (40) Set of mounting of (33) the support (20), (41) Set of guider mounting (28) to the lower basis (12) and flat section (15), (42) Set of mounting of (34) to the container (13)

FIG. 1 is a perspective of the device (10) for the cleaning of the golf clubs.

FIG. 2 is a partial and sectional perspective of the device (10) that allows us to visualize the interior parts of it.

FIG. 3 is an upper side view of the device (10) and, more precisely, of the block (23) and its brushes (16).

FIG. 4 is a raised, lateral and partially sectional view, with details of the upper and lower basis coupling (11-12) in the container element (13) and other parts of the device (10).

FIG. 5 is a partially sectional perspective of the device (10).

In one of the preferred embodiment that is the object of the present invention and, as viewed in FIG. 4, the device (10), shows a container element (13) preferably cylindrical, which upper and lower parts (24-25) shut through the upper and lower basis (11-12), and each one of them has a skirt (21-22), hermetically sealing the lower part of (13) in relation to the lower basis (12) by a joint (26).

In the lower basis (12) and, as viewed in graph N^(o) 4, an interruption valve is placed in its central part (30) being hermetic to the said basis (12) by a joint (31), whose valve function (30) is to empty the container element (13) of the cleaning solution, clean its interior and fill it up again.

In the interior part of the device (10) and, approximately in the middle, there is a flat section (15), in the form of a disk, fixed by guiders (28), that are in touch, from the bottom, with a support (20), and a o-ring joint (36), that divides the container element (13) in two halves also cylindrical, as you can visualize in FIG. 4.

The said flat section (15), as viewed in graph N^(o) 2, 3 and 5 shows an outer entrance (18) preferably rectangular of minor concave basis, through which the end part of the golf club is inserted, not shown in the figures.

The support (20), as viewed in graph N^(o) 2, shows the form of a disk guided by (28), that can slide in the interior of the container element (13), against the spring expansion effect (17), which lower end leans on the lower basis (12), and upper end leans on the support (20) against the o-ring joint (31).

The operation by the user in front of the device (10) is the following: the golf club is inserted in the outer entrance (14) of the upper basis (11), so that the end part faces the lower basis (12), the metal part of the golf club moves downwards by the interior of the container element (13) and when it reaches the support (20) it is pushed downwards by pressing the spring (17), at the same time that the cleaning solution contained in the interior (13) moves upwards through the space between (20) and (13) spreading the metal part of the golf club not shown in the figures.

A differentiating advantage of this invention in relation to other cleaning systems is that it is a portable accessory thanks to its sealing system.

Sufficiently describing the present invention with the corresponding attached figures makes it easy to understand that it is possible to make any modification to this invention regarding details that would be considered convenient, as long as these variations does not affect the essence of the invention that is reflected in the following claims. 

1. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs of the type which consists, strictly speaking, of the golf club wooden made or made of similar material in which, in the end part, there is an attached concrete metal part that is cleaned when needed by a brush and water, characterized in that the device that is made up of a container element which end parts have an upper basis affected in its central part by an outer entrance, and a lower basis fitted by a circular skirt respectively, and in that the interior of the device there is a flat section in which, from the lower part, a support in the form of a disk leans on.
 2. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim, characterized in that the upper and lower basis are adjusted to the interior surface of the container element, by its circular skirts at the end parts of the said container element.
 3. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs according to the first claim, characterized in that the fixed disk that includes a circular joint on its lateral surface which adjoins the interior surface of the container element.
 4. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim, characterized in that the container element has a cylindrical configuration.
 5. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim, characterized in that the flat section has an outer entrance reachable from the block from which longer sides emerge bristles in planar distribution which end parts define an interior outer entrance.
 6. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim, characterized in that the support has the form of a disk and can slide through the interior of the container element and its interior surface, through two guiders, against the spring expansion effect, which lower end of leans on the lower basis, and upper basis leans on the support.
 7. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim characterized in that in the lower basis of the device and in its central part an interruption valve has been built-in which becomes hermetic by a joint which function is to empty the container element of the cleaning solution, clean up its interior and fill it up again.
 8. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first claim characterized in that the liquid container in is accessible only by pressing on the support and withdraws itself in a hermetic way when the pressure is released, allowing its transportation in any position. 